"El destacado crítico de arte y ocasional performero Nelson Rivera cuenta con una larga trayectoria en el quehacer intelectual y cultural de Puerto Rico. El texto Con urgencia recoge esta trayectoria y muestra la porosidad y la pertinencia del género de la crítica en un país frecuentemente anestesiado por la trivialidad. Texto político, en el sentido provocador del término, Con urgencia es una recopilación de artículos dispersos, publicados e inéditos, que comprenden aproximadamente veinte años de producción."

Artistic experimentation with abstract forms still poses a great challenge for art connoisseurs and cultural critics in Puerto Rico. This book by Professor Nelson Rivera, an expert in the political art of the twentieth century, approaches the subject through the analysis of criticism of abstraction in the paintings of contemporary artists such as Raquel Rivera, Myrna Báez and Antonio Martorell. The author extends the controversy on the supposed moral obligation of the artist

to reflect the Puerto Rican identity “as it is” to artistic forms – such as photography, sculpture and dance – that  its non-traditional proposals, as well as challenging the clichés that for decades have been an impediment to the deep appreciation that experimental art on the island merits.

Nelson Rivera